Collection of "Proverbs of the Russian people", which includes more than 30 thousand proverbs and pribautok and first published in the 1861-1862 years, is one of the major works of the great Russian ethnographer and lexicographer Vladimir Ivanovich Dal. As rightly wrote himself Dal "Naputnom" to the first edition: "Analysis and evaluation of other publications must end in either directly or indirectly, a humble recognition that all our best." Sources for the collection served as meeting Knyazhevich (around 5300 proverbs) Snegiryov (around 4000 proverbs) and other publications, of which a total of Dahl took about 6,000 proverbs, or about one-fifth of its collection. The main part was collected Dahl "by nasluhu in oral conversation", the main source was the "living language Rusko, and more than we the people."

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